[Distant Worlds] Be right back!
- Thread starter Macros Black
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May I make a suggestion.
I am currently flying a ship that doesn't have the same legs as a 'typical explorer' so keeping up with the main fleet is a challenge in itself.
I have basically written the outward journey off entirely as a jump>honk>scoop activity. That's right, I'm only looking at the system map maybe one in ten systems. Maybe not even that. I log in, plot 30-ish jumps and do them. Then if I feel like it I do another 20. Then if I still feel like it, I will have a little look around. Io found checking the star became a road to disappointment because I would want
to go check those things out, but I would fall behind if I did.
Not looking is a serene road which is allowing me to keep up. Once I reach Beagle with the fleet then I have all the time in the world to explore as I meander roughly homewars.
Keep up the spirit. This expedition is an once in a lifetime experience in ED. There will not be anything like it again. As WhiteRose & Rikk said, you have all the time in the world after BP.
Good luck
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Update: Today I travelled almost 10.000 ly, so it seems an end will come into sight, therefore spirits are rising - This will happen.
@ Whiterose, Rikk, MacrosTheBlack: You are of course right, there will be plenty of time afterwards. And thanks to my notes and EDDiscovery I can, at that point, explore into detail the two routes I have taken. That seems a fine long term goal.
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Keep up the spirit. This expedition is an once in a lifetime experience in ED. There will not be anything like it again. As WhiteRose & Rikk said, you have all the time in the world after BP.
Good luck
^^^^^This!
Its a nut grind for me but I will do it. It is one of them goals in life that mean sod all to anyone except you. [praise]
Keep up the spirit. This expedition is an once in a lifetime experience in ED. There will not be anything like it again. As WhiteRose & Rikk said, you have all the time in the world after BP.
Good luck
Maybe not exactly like DW. But I doubt this will be the last deep space expedition. I suspect that when more content is added down the road, most of the people group/open may find themselves on a similar (if shorter) journey.
Maybe not exactly like DW. But I doubt this will be the last deep space expedition. I suspect that when more content is added down the road, most of the people group/open may find themselves on a similar (if shorter) journey.
"It's happened before, and it will happen again" - A quote from one of our favorite Sci-fi series, eh?
You better hurry up, get that arm working and then join the fleet
Edit: What me? well I promised 40t Palladium in the 100% hull prize; slaving right now in the bubble to earn it for the lucky winner. However, payout may not come to pass; with the current attrition, the galaxy is definitely on my side
(maybe just invest it in another red Anaconda and then head out to BP? sounds good to me)
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Oh bother
About a kylie from Sag A dropping in from WP12 (yes a little out of order) and somehow managed to plummet to my death 100% pilot error, panic and gnashing of teeth. And there I was planning to catch the main fleet next weekend....
Oh....and I was still on 100% hull until this brain malfunction just to rub it in a bit more..
About a kylie from Sag A dropping in from WP12 (yes a little out of order) and somehow managed to plummet to my death
100% pilot error, panic and gnashing of teeth. And there I was planning to catch the main fleet next weekend....Oh....and I was still on 100% hull until this brain malfunction just to rub it in a bit more..
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Oh bother
About a kylie from Sag A dropping in from WP12 (yes a little out of order) and somehow managed to plummet to my death
Oh....and I was still on 100% hull until this brain malfunction just to rub it in a bit more..
I feel your pain, CMDR. Keep up the spirit.
Was it Jose Wales that said something similar to this... "Dyin' ain't much of a livin'... "?
You are out there trying to kill yourself speedballin' with the mistaken belief that you might be missing something way out there in the middle of the veritable "Somewhere"... which is ACTUALLY CAUSING YOU TO MISS something right where you are.
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If you would like to be "Part of History"... there is something ya gotta remember. History happens every day! As long as you participate (ie...keep living, keep discovering, keep moving... not necessarily faster... but ever forward)... you are part of it.
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Some will tell you "You can explore when you catch up"... but THAT really misses the point of exploration doesn't it? Gotta meet the schedule.... gotta be on time.... gotta pressurize every "stinking" thing... Sorry ... but
NO... YOU DON'T!
Deny yourself the things you like to do.. and guess what... misery ensues.
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No one of consequence... (me, that is) thinks you should do what makes it enjoyable to YOU. Take the time it takes... it will still be out there... whether you decide to high tail it or stop and smell the Roses.
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There is still Plenty of History to be made... and all the time in the galaxy left to make it.
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So I was close to waypoint 17 when I started to wonder if anyone had bought enough onionhead for the party at Beagle Point. Also the Anaconda actually has paintjobs now other than bling and midnight black friday. It took me two days to travel the 33kly back to the bubble. It will doubtless take me at least a week to catch back up.
Ok. I did repair and sell 57 million credits of data. In future I'll hunt for Barnacles in distant nebula at a height of 1km. But the most important reasons was onionhead and marine blue paint.
Ok. I did repair and sell 57 million credits of data. In future I'll hunt for Barnacles in distant nebula at a height of 1km. But the most important reasons was onionhead and marine blue paint.
Sigh....500ly down, a darn long way to go..
It would be seriously easy to give up. Perhaps it is fortuitous that my whackamole impersonation took place a few hundred ly shy of Sag A....so I still didn't get there. Because that's a real compelling reason to get back to where i was and then actually make Sag A and Armstrong's landing. And once there....well no point turning back, may as well finish the trip to BP. I think if I'd already had Sag A in the pocket it might have been a whole lot easier to give up and go finish some RL projects instead.
It would be seriously easy to give up. Perhaps it is fortuitous that my whackamole impersonation took place a few hundred ly shy of Sag A....so I still didn't get there. Because that's a real compelling reason to get back to where i was and then actually make Sag A and Armstrong's landing. And once there....well no point turning back, may as well finish the trip to BP. I think if I'd already had Sag A in the pocket it might have been a whole lot easier to give up and go finish some RL projects instead.
Sag A* is the easy part of the trip. I would keep going if I were. I was wondering a bit too if I should continue right around there and now I'm at BP! If you are plotting long, 1kLY, plots and it seems like the numb of jumps just doesn't go down, then plot 200ly routes. It seemed to make it easier for me. That way you can look at how many jumps you have left and think "Oh, only 10 more to go before I reach my target!"
It might have been a better option to do that. If you die in your SRV then you can choose to return to another ship in the bubble and sell your exploration data apparently. I haven't done it myself but it would have been good to know when I was worried about getting stranded in remote location and no ability to prospect the materials to jump back. I don't know if you need to own a ship in the bubble or not or whether it gives you an option of a free sidewinder.
That's pretty much what I've been doing since my trip back to the bubble for repairs after waypoint 5.
I should reach waypoint 21 tonight.
100% and min. hull prizes
The 100% hull prize winner of 40t Palladium is: TBA.
The min. hull prize winner of 200t Palladium is: TBA.
Contesters for the min. hull which ends just before the wedding on the 9th of April:
Pot contributors:
100% Hull Prize:
Min. Hull Prize:
The 100% hull prize winner of 40t Palladium is: TBA.
The min. hull prize winner of 200t Palladium is: TBA.
Contesters for the min. hull which ends just before the wedding on the 9th of April:
- Unconfirmed - Senik 0%
- Muad'Dib [POZ] 7% hull - https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=198085&page=650&p=3742049&viewfull=1#post3742049
- Arubeto: 31% hull - https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=198085&page=639&p=3734623&viewfull=1#post3734623
Pot contributors:
100% Hull Prize:
- Macros Black, 40t Palladium
Min. Hull Prize:
- Macros Black, 40t Palladium
- Silvershadow, 160t Palladium
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+1 virtual Rep. (Forum software just don't let me do it again)
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CMDR Camaxtili has 9% hull only. [big grin]
This should be CMDR Muad'Dib, accordingly to his signature, but I haven't a screenshot.
If I find someone lower or equal that 31% hull, I make a screenshot.